General interest

Looking for rainforest heroes: between rhetoric and reality on an ecotour in Brazil

Article Abstract:

An ecotour to the Amazon jungles in Brazil with officials of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and other environmental groups reveals the reality of life in this controversial region. Away from the city where they could shout their usual rhetorics these people find themselves at a loss in the forest.

The Guardian (1948-1992)

Article Abstract:

The New York-based tabloid 'The Guardian' folds up in 1992 after 44 years of publication. The collapse of the communist ideology which it supports caused th reduction in its subscriber circulation to only one tenth of the original number. It was also reportedly debt-ridden.

Hello Brazil

Article Abstract:

One of Brazil's main problems today is that of the increasing poverty and social injustice being experienced by its minority black population. These problems show an alarming similarity to those experienced by African-Americans in the US.